Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics

Generalized Hydrodynamic Description of the Page Curve–like Dynamics of a Freely Expanding Fermionic Gas Authors: Madhumita Saha, Manas Kulkarni, and Abhishek Dhar Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 230402 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.230402 Recommended with a commentary by Masaki Oshikawa , University of Tokyo |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2025_02

Terahertz electric-field-driven dynamical multiferroicity in SrTiO3 Authors: M. Basini, M. Pancaldi, B. Wehinger, M. Udina, V. Unikandanunni, T. Tadano, M. C. Hoffmann, A. V. Balatsky, and S. Bonetti Nature, 628, 534 (2024), DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07175-9 Recommended with a commentary by Dmitrii L. Maslov , University of Florida |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: […]

1. Comparing electrical magnetochiral anisotropy and chirality-induced spin selectivity Authors: G. L. J. A. Rikken and N. Avarvari J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 9727 (2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02546 2. Chirality induced spin selectivity in chiral crystals Authors: Qun Yang, Yongkang Li, Claudia Felser, and Binghai Yan arXiv:2312.04366 DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.04366 Recommended with a commentary by Atsushi Fujimori […]

1. Superfluid fraction in an interacting spatially modulated Bose-Einstein condensate Authors: R G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.226003 arXiv:2302.01776; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2302.01776 2. Observation of anisotropic superfluid density in an artificial crystal […]

Majorana chain and Ising model — (non-invertible) translations, anomalies, and emanant symmetries Authors: Nathan Seiberg and Shu-Heng Shao arXiv:2307.02534; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.02534 Recommended with a commentary by T. Senthil , Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_February_2024_03

1. Anisotropy as a diagnostic test for distinct tensor-network wave functions of integer- and half-integer-spin Kitaev quantum spin liquids Authors: Hyun-Yong Lee, Takafumi Suzuki, Yong Baek Kim, and Naoki Kawashima Phys. Rev. B 104, 024417 (2021); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.024417 2. Z2 Spin Liquids in the Higher Spin-S Kitaev Honeycomb Model: An Exact Deconfined Z2 Gauge Structure […]

1. Single electron-spin-resonance detection by microwave photon counting Authors: Z. Wang, L. Balembois, M. M. Rančić, E. Billaud, M. Le Dantec, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, S. Bertaina, T. Chanelière, D. Estève, D. Vion, P. Bertet, and E. Flurin Nature 619, 276–281 (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06097-2 2. Practical Single Microwave Photon Counter with 10-22 W/√Hz sensitivity Authors: […]

Self-organisation of mortal filaments: the role of FtsZ treadmilling in bacterial division ring formation Authors: Christian Vanhille-Campos, Kevin D. Whitley, Philipp Radler, Martin Loose, Séamus Holden, and Anđela Šarić bioRxiv 2023.05.08.539808; DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.08.539808 Recommended with a commentary by Karsten Kruse , Université de Genève |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2023_02 […]

1. Signatures of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted MoTe2 Bilayer Authors: Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson, Chong Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, William Holtzmann, Yinong Zhang, Fengren Fan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, Liang Fu, Di Xiao, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu Nature (2023); DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06289-w arXiv:2304.08470; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2304.08470 2. Integer […]

Kagomé quantum oscillations in graphene superlattices Authors: Folkert K. de Vries, Sergey Slizovskiy, Petar Tomić, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Aitor Garcia-Ruiz, Giulia Zheng, Elías Portolés, Leonid A. Ponomarenko, Andre K. Geim, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vladimir Fal’ko, Klaus Ensslin, Thomas Ihn, and Peter Rickhaus arXiv:2303.06403; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2303.06403 Recommended with a commentary by Nigel Cooper, University of […]

Nonmutual torques and the unimportance of motility for long-range order in two-dimensional flocks Authors: Lokrshi Prawar Dadhichi, Jitendra Kethapelli, Rahul Chajwa, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Ananyo Maitra Phys. Rev. E 101, 052601 (2020); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.052601 Recommended with a commentary by Alexandre Solon, Sorbonne Université and CNRS |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: […]

Extended Charge Layers in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Nanocapacitors Revealed by Operando Electron Holography Authors: C. Gatel, R. Serra, K. Gruel, A. Masseboeuf, L. Chapuis, R. Cours, L. Zhang, B. Warot-Fonrose, and M. J. Hÿtch Physical Review Letters 129, 137701 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.137701 Recommended with a commentary by Joe Checkelsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This […]

Down-conversion of a single photon as a probe of many-body localization Authors: Nitish Mehta, Roman Kuzmin, Cristiano Ciuti, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan arXiv:2203.17186; DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.17186 Recommended with a commentary by Steven M. Girvin, Yale University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_April_2022_02

Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Paking in d = 2 and d = 3 Authors: Alessio Zaccone Physical Review Letters 128, 028002 (2022); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.028002 Recommended with a commentary by Christos Likos, University of Vienna |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_March_2022_02

Quantum phase transition in a clean superconductor with repulsive dynamical interaction Authors: Dimitri Pimenov and Andrey V. Chubukov arXiv:2112.06273 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_January_2022_01

1. Isospin magnetism and spin-triplet superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Yu Saito, Liam Cohen, William Huynh, Caitlin L. Patterson, Fangyuan Yang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young arXiv:2110.11317 2. Superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene Authors: Haoxin Zhou, Tian Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Andrea F. Young Nature 598, 434–438 […]

Quantized Nonlinear Conductance in Ballistic Metals Authors: C. L. Kane arXiv:2108.05870 Recommended with a commentary by Carlo Beenakker, Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_October_2021_02

Theory of Hofstadter Superconductors Authors: Daniel Shaffer, Jian Wang, Luiz H. Santos arXiv:2108.04831 Recommended with a commentary by Jörg Schmalian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_August_2021_02 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_August_2021_02

1. Topological Shiba bands in artificial spin chains on superconductors Authors: L. Schneider, P. Beck, T. Posske, D. Crawford, E. Mascot, S. Rachel, R. Wiesendanger, and J. Wiebe Nat. Phys. (2021); DOI:10.1038/s41567-021-01234-y arXiv:2104.11497 2. Controlled length-dependent interaction of Majorana modes in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov chains Authors: L. Schneider, P. Beck, J. Neuhaus-Steinmetz, T. Posske, J. Wiebe, and […]

Rigidity percolation uncovers a structural basis for embryonic tissue phase transitions Authors: Nicoletta I. Petridou, Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, and Edouard Hannezo Cell, 184(7):1914–1928 (2021); DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.017 Recommended with a commentary by Sumit Sinha and D. Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin |View Commentary (pdf)| This commentary may be cited as: DOI: 10.36471/JCCM_June_2021_03 https://doi.org/10.36471/JCCM_June_2021_03